Carr v. Manchester Electric Co.
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case, to recover damages for an injury received by the plaintiff, November 24, 1896, on Marion street, M West Manchester, while in the employ of the Manchester Electric Company as a lamp-trimmer.
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Case, to recover damages for an injury received by the plaintiff, November 24, 1896, on Marion street, M West Manchester, while in the employ of the Manchester Electric Company as a lamp-trimmer. The evidence for the plaintiff tended to show that at the time of his injury he had been in their employ since October, 1894, as a trimmer, except the summer of 1895; that his work required him to go over the circuit in the morning to trim the lamps, and again at night to see that they were properly started; that his circuit included about one hundred lamps; that he had trimmed on it for the precedmg…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, C. J.
The plaintiff’s grounds of complaint against the Manchester Electric Company are (1) that they were negligent in not instructing him as to the increased danger in working upon pole lamps in wet weather, and (2) that they were also negligent in allowing the wires of the two companies to come in contact on Marion street.
The first ground is untenable. The negligence complained of would be immaterial unless it caused the plaintiff’s injury. If the alleged enhanced danger to him on account of dampness was not adequately provided for by the cut-off switch, whose office and purpose it is, as he…
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